Date: Fri, 19 Jan 1996 23:10:51 -0800 (PST) From: kline@tera.com (Gary Kline) To: mbarkah@hemi.com (Ade Barkah) Cc: kline@tera.com, questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: (streams) Message-ID: <9601200710.AA03823@tera.com> In-Reply-To: <199601200610.XAA28975@hemi.com> from "Ade Barkah" at Jan 19, 96 11:10:17 pm
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According to Ade Barkah: > > > [Re: streams] > > > > You could `push' or `pop' functions//modules onto an I/O > > > device. It turned writing at least I/O drivers into something > > > like building things out of tinker-toys. Simple. > > Hmm, yeah, it was nice from the application level too, like > simply pushing the "connld" module to do multiplexing. Exactly. What struck me about Streams was that Ritchie was continuing on the same path that he and Ken Thompson began with:: that you create more complex things from the simpler. > > I hear M.J. Karels is designing a "streams-like" mechanism > for BSD (bstreams?), but I don't know the details. > Really? Super. Mike Karels can do it as well as Dennis; and probably improve it given the years of use//experience that the Streams paradigm has gone thru. --g
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